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My mother has worked as an English teacher, a Librarian, a Journalist and an Editor.
DH and I, together with my mother, sister, MIL and BIL are all published writers in various formats.
DH and I have eleven (yes, eleven) bookshelves full of books.
There is no way on God's great earth that I'm going to be able to reconcile with an e-reader anytime soon.
I understand why people love them (particularly on days when I have two or three books in my bag) but I'm not emotionally ready for such a catastrophic change ...
I feel your pain. My whole career has been in the book trade. My last job would shut up shop for three weeks over Christmas and when we went back in, you could smell the books. Aaaahhhh. I swore black and blue that I would never buy an e-reader.
But I now own a Kobo and have downloaded my first book. And it's freaking awesome.
Convenient. No more trawling through bookshops with limited stock trying to find what I wanted or trying to remember.
Storage. My whole life is pretty much in boxes for the next three years. I've moved a whole house into two bedrooms and a bathroom and do not have any room for books right now.
Holidays. I can take the Kobo in the caravan, much easier than trying to figure out how many books I'll churn through on a trip.
I'll still buy books to have and hold. But only to be adding to my precious ones. Instead of buying a book that ends up being rubbish but absolutely cannot throw it away and stick it on an overcrowded shelf for eternity.
I finally read The Hunger Games. Amazing. Reading The Help right now and loving it.
Has anyone read The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons? I recall that it's part of a trilogy and am wondering if this is the first book. Thinking of reading this next.